Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed at Build 2026 For years the story of Microsoft and AI has had one protagonist: OpenAI. The GPT family powered Copilot in Windows, Office and — most importantly for the people reading this — inside GitHub Copilot, where a large share of working developers across Bengaluru, Pune, London and Manchester now write code. At Build 2026, on roughly 2 June, that story gained a second protagonist: Microsoft itself. The Microsoft AI Superintelligence Team announced two models built entirely in-house. MAI-Code-1-Flash is Microsoft's first first-party coding model, and it began rolling out to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code the same day, expanding across the Copilot Free, Pro, Pro+ and Max plans. MAI-Thinking-1 is a reasoning model, available initially in private preview through…